ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: Images of US Policy Toward Iraq: "

'As of November 2005, there were more than 212,000 trained and equipped Iraqi Security Forces, compared with 96,000 in September of last year.'

Iraq did not, however, have 96,000 trained and equipped Iraqi Security Forces (like the dapper fellows at right) in September 2004.

Adam Entous with Reuters obtained internal Defense Department documents in September 2004 that revealed only 8,169 had completed the full eight-week academy training. 46,176 of what are publicly called ‘trained and equipped’ forces were listed privately as ‘untrained.’

Trained, untrained. What are you, a semiologist?

One wonders how many of the ‘212,000 trained and equipped Iraqi Security Forces’ are, well, trained or equipped."

(Via ArmsControlWonk.com.)